On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > I've got an Indy now, and I want to make it install (with the current > debian dbootstrap) on a NFS root. So I first go to mount the NFS server > to /target and then proceed with the installation. All .deb's get > downloaded, but they cannot be extracted because dpkg can't lock > /var/lib/dpkg/lock . > > Dumb question: How do I make file locking (via fcntl(F_SETLK)) > functional? place your lock files into the ramdisk. ladis